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Record 1 1998-06-26

English

Subject field(s)
  • Humanities and Social Sciences (General)
  • Statistical Surveys
DEF

A wrong conclusion reached by taking a known fact about individuals and projecting it to apply to the entire population.

OBS

A fallacy in which what is true of a part is, on that account alone, alleged to be also necessarily true of the whole.

French

Domaine(s)
  • Sciences humaines (Généralités)
  • Sondages et enquêtes (Statistique)

Spanish

Campo(s) temático(s)
  • Ciencias humanas (Generalidades)
  • Encuestas estadísticas
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